The Examination Hall of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons: Queen Victoria Laying the Foundation Stone

2016 ◽  
pp. 179-180
Author(s):  
Kieran Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Queen Victoria ◽  
Foundation Stone

scholarly journals Plurality in the Capital: The Christian Responses to London’s Religious Minorities since 1800

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 232-258
Author(s):  
John Wolffe
Keyword(s):  
East India Company ◽  
Late Spring ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Queen Victoria ◽  
South Sea ◽  
Church Missionary Society ◽  
The Church ◽  
Foundation Stone ◽  
London Docklands

On a late spring day in 1856 Prince Albert carried out one of the less routine royal engagements of the Victorian era, by laying the foundation stone of what was to become ‘The Strangers’ Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders’, located at Limehouse in the London docklands. The deputation receiving the prince was headed by the earl of Chichester, who was the First Church Estates Commissioner and president of the Church Missionary Society, and included Thomas Carr, formerly bishop of Bombay, Maharajah Duleep Singh, a Sikh convert to Christianity and a favourite of Queen Victoria, and William Henry Sykes, MP and chairman of the East India Company.

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